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The Future Will Be Chaos Behind these outstanding Amiga screenshots lies a theory which will alter all of our lives. Mark Heley reports Chaos. It's on record covers, T-shirts and badges and the CIA are putting hundreds of millions of dollars into researching it. It's chaos theory, the new science ot the patterns and complex systems scientists are finding in seemingly random events. Only made possible by the use of computers to model amazing mathematics like the Mandlebrot set and the Koch snowflake, it's going to do more than change science. It's going to change your life. Chaos theory cuts across all scientific disciplines and all areas of knowledge where prediction is involved. Chaos seeps out in dozens of strange forms and can be used in the most unlikely calculations. But chaos isn't just abstract, with computers to make highly-complex graphic representations, you can visualise the patterns. Most of the work done by research scientists has been to harness the power of chaos to their own ends, but visionary programmers The Fractal Factory have concentrated on displaying the beauty of chaos for purely artistic purposes. With their fractal programming on the PC and the Amiga, they have created a pulsating tapestry of light with mathematical equations like the Mandlebrot set, which produce a random’ series of infinite numbers, which is what you see represented on the screen. They are some of the most vivid chaos programs ever realised, constantly changing and evolving before collapsing in on themselves again. This isn't just psychedelia nouveau, this is hard science. These are the same mathematics that scientists from geneticists to dynamic engineers are using and it's all done with Dpainl III and an adapted Amiga in North London.